SGS Heia Safari

The game engine is excellent, as is the design and detail. The fact that one of my niche interests (Battle for the Bundu) is seriously addressed in this game is amazing to me. Excellent game on all counts!

Wondered what it felt to fight in WW1 Eastern Africa?...German Askaris vs British KAR's (reminds me of a nice Opsrey book I own). Well, I am delighted ! The flavor is there, the product looks gorgeous, and I am enjoying playing my "African Queen" (movie wink) here. The designer has well captured the intricacies of colonial warfare in the area during the Great War. The force structures, and above all the tactics and the strategy are very well rendered. As the German I went a bit cocky after my easy victoires and lost against the big bataillons of the Entente. When they came after me in force, I had to run...luckily using my Askaris skills in guerrilla warfare to save my skin. I tried the other side, thinking that playing an Elephant would be easy and that the German fly would be crushed soon... big error. The flies (Tse Tse) and the mosquitoes (the Malaria and other diseases are killers, like was the case by then) just wrecked my ambitions and I had to carefully progress, in the rare moment when heavy rainfall or drastic heat did not prevent my operations. i was feeling being "there", which is, after all, what I believe is best in an historical simulation. Great job! One last wish, SGS guys, make a game "out of Africa"(another movie wink) next time.

Groete uit Dodoma, Tanzanië. Ek skryf in Afrikaans, my moedertaal, want ek is eintlik van Ndabeni, 'n voorstad van Kaapstad. Ek het saam met my familie daar gewoon. Die Engelse koloniale meesters het my baie sleg behandel: Ek moes bedags in die tekstielfabriek werk of by die hawe help aflaai, in die aande het ek musiek gemaak vir die dronk soldate. Eenkeer het 'n varkgesig Engelse sersant my ure lank opstote laat doen. Elke jong man wil vry wees. Daarom het ek my ouers verlaat en saans uit die kamp gevlug, sonder om te weet waarheen om te gaan. Dit was 'n tyd van trane, want ek kon nie van hulle afskeid neem nie. Ook het ek sonder 'n woord my liefling en my vriende in Kaapstad gelos. Ek het al noordoos langs die kus gereis, soms vir plaaslike boere gewerk, soms kos uit winkels en kombuise gesteel, of op vullis geleef. Ek het my lewe gewaag deur verskeie landsgrense oor te steek, het Swaziland en Mosambiek gesien, en ná drie jaar se reis het ek Duits-Oos-Afrika bereik. Die Duitsers het met 'n ystervuis daar regeer. Moeg en honger het ek by hulle aangesluit. As jy vir die Duitsers geveg het, het jy slaapplek en kos gekry. Boonop kon ek nou veg teen die gehate Engelsmanne wat my gesin gepynig het. Natuurlik het die Duitsers my ook nooit soos ’n vol mens behandel nie, maar ek het uitgehou en oor die weg gekom, en ek onthou dat 'n Duitse onderoffisier my sy beskermengel genoem het toe ons groep die Pangani rivier gepatrolleer het, nie ver van Kilimanjaro af nie. Die soldate het selfs vir ons rum gegee toe hulle in 'n goeie bui was, maar die volgende oggend moes ons weer vroeg opstaan en uitgerus aantree. Kommunikasie met die ander Askari was baie moeilik want ek kon skaars Duits of Swahili praat. Ek was in die bestorming van Tanga. Ek sal dit nooit vergeet nie, hoewel ek later baie veldslae aanskou het. Dit is my vuurdoop gewees. Tot vandag toe kan ek die swael ruik terwyl ons deur die bos en in die skote gehardloop het. Ek en my kamerade het vir 'n vreemde mag geveg, maar een ding het ek toe geleer: Die Askari was die dapperste manne in die wêreld. Toe ons die stad herower het, het ek op my knieë geval en die goeie Here gedank. Dit was 'n Woensdag gewees en die lug was rooi. Later het generaal von Lettow-Vorbeck ons ​​gelukgewens en selfs my hand geskud. Nou is ek honderd sewe en twintig jaar oud, die gode was vriendelik met my, en daardie tyd is lankal verby. Die besetters is nou weg en ons kan ons eie geskiedenis skryf. Ek het nooit weer my ouers gesien nie, maar nou het ek 'n familie van my eie. Toe ek Kaapstad baie jare later besoek het, was my pa se huis weg. Hulle klein washuisie was ook nêrens te vinde nie. Soms dink ek terug en huil omdat ek nie weet wat met hulle gebeur het nie. Ek hoop dat hulle nog goed gelewe het en hulle nie oor my bekommer het nie. Hierdie gedagte pynig my baie. Vyf jaar gelede het my seun vir my 'n rekenaar vir my verjaardag gegee, so ek speel soms rekenaarspeletjies as my vrou slaap. Dis hoe ek op [i]Heia Safari[/i] afgekom het, wat vertel van die gevegte in Duits-Oos-Afrika. Dit is 'n baie goeie en realistiese speletjie, maar bring hartseer herinneringe terug. Ek weet nie hoeveel tyd ek oor het nie, maar ek is dankbaar om asem te haal en te leef. Eendag sal ek my ouers in die hemel sien, tot dan sal ek uithou. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvkklVMaTOo

This has to be the best in the SGS series. Perfectly balanced and true to life. I've read quite a few books on this campaign, and of course Von Lettow-Vorbeck is an African continent napoleon. The Germans fought with an elan, skill, and cohesion that is rarely if ever seen in the last few centuries. The game does a great job giving you control of everything while simultaneously providing the correct historical outside influences. I love the artwork as well. If i could own this on paper for a board game with friends I would. AI was not bad at all, though i suspect a human player on the British side would of kept me from achieving a total victory. Buy it and you wont regret! Heia Safari!

Nice game for a rarely covered area

Espetacular! É um dos dois que tratam desse tema! Muito bem acabado em seus gráficos. Musica tinha que ser essa. Perfeito. Visão superior estratégica excelente. Comparação das forças em combate perfeito. Cartas com os principais acontecimentos. Desenho aprimorado das unidades. Por mais que tenha detalhes a tela nunca fica "suja". 10 de 10 Para os wargamistas como digo: Um Tem Quer Ter! Spectacular! It is one of the two that deal with this theme! Very well finished in its graphics. The music had to be this one. Perfect. Strategic overview excellent. Comparison of forces in combat perfect. Cards with the main events. Improved design of the units. No matter how much detail there is the screen never gets "dirty". 10 out of 10 For wargamers as I say: A Must Have!

If you like history and strategy games play this game! Besides some typos and the occasional crash, it is tons of fun. I'm hooked on these SGS games.

Juego hecho con mucho cariño y rigor histórico. Te pone a los mandos de las Schutztruppe del África Oriental Alemana en una lucha asimétrica de guerrillas contra la Entente. A diferencia de otros juegos aquí tendras que planear cada movimiento, atacar donde más favorecido salgas y moverte. Las dificultades son muchas pero cualquier ocasión es buena para patear a la pérfida.

Perhaps one of the best games in the series despite all the bugs

SGS Heia Safari is a true gem with such great historical immersion that when I play as the good guys I almost become Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck myself. If you're an armchair general, history buff and think it's good to educate while playing then this game is for you. SGS/Avalon should add on the Steam page that there is PBEM and a local multiplayer and I hope SGS and Avalon Digital will release more WW1 campaigns...YES I´m looking at you Gallipoli.